Cool features of the PSP

besty

Hi,
I'm just checking to see from PSP owners what can actually be done on them outside playing games and watching UMD's? I know you can listen to MP3s and stuff but with the WiFi and memory card etc. what else can be done? Can you download programmes to run on the PSP and things along those lines?

Cheers for any help...

qz

You can put pictures on the PSP aswell, be it photographs or saved web pics.

besty

sounds good. ive heard you can get msn messenger for it too. would i be able to use that with my wireless broadband at home? are there any good emulator games?

qz

besty wrote:

sounds good. ive heard you can get msn messenger for it too. would i be able to use that with my wireless broadband at home? are there any good emulator games?

You can use MSN messenger as long as you have Wipeout Pure, and then you have to fiddle around with it a bit afaik.

besty

so whats so special about wipeout.does some special software come with those particular games or something? could you not theoretically download some software or something. please excuse my ignorance....

also what capacity memory stick would everyone recommend?

qz

besty wrote:

also what capacity memory stick would everyone recommend?

A gig. You get a 32mb card but it's far too small. Shell out for the gig.

Vokes

bedlam wrote:

There is no actual client for it, it is just accessed via the MSN web interface which as qz mentioned you will need to have wipeout pure (or derby time)

Webmessenger ?

Kevin_rc_ie

how do you type messages? i can't think of a quick way....

besty

qz wrote:

A gig. You get a 32mb card but it's far too small. Shell out for the gig.

how much is it? around €150 or something? fairly pricey though. can I put any sort of film files from my laptop and stuff onto the memory card and watch say a wmv. on the psp? that would be savage

peterk19

No you get a sofware called psp video 9 and it will convert most video types for yuo and transfer them onto the memory card
Pete

besty

ok, cool. thanks

what sort of emulated games are there?

qz

Some Super Nintendo, Megadrive and GameBoy games afaik. Look at www.psphacks.net, it's a great site.

besty

its getting more and more tempting each day...

Retr0gamer

The emulators at the moment are very slow. No games run perfectly. The best snes emulator has sound but games are unplayable. The mega drive one has no sound and is unplayable. The code will be optimised in time.

Franky Boy

Afaik you can't run MSN messenger but there definitley is an MSN webpage!

You should get Wipeout,besides it being the ideal game for internet browsing, the game itself actually rocks!

CiDeRmAn

Ok, regarding the emus on the psp, the megadrive and snes ones work just fine and are updated regularly, sometimes you may need to switch off the sound or introduce some framerate skipping to make it all work at the right speed but overall its not bad, kinda similar to the emu scene circa '97, so be assured the flaws will be ironed out.
The Snes and Megadrive are on my mem card now and I am playing ChronoTrigger, PuzzleBobble, Thunderforce IV and Sonic3, amongst others. The NES emu is working perfectly so you can have Mario Bros. 1,2,3 and Kirby to mention but a few.
The machine is doing really well in the homebrew scene, the only small problem is the price of the media, although a 256mb card costs about 70 while a Gig card from Britain is around €120 if you shop around.